The 10th house sits at the top of the chart. It is exposed. Visible. Public. There is very little hiding up there. Whatever lives in this part of the chart is pulled toward the world beyond the private self, toward...
In astrology, Saturn has a way of touching the places within us where confidence is least natural. Here, our sense of competence is perpetually under construction, and even our genuine accomplishments struggle to silence the doubt that we are somehow Continue reading Saturn: Fifty Years of Feeling Inadequate, Followed by a Modest Improvement Before Death
An innate wisdom is found in the earth signs. These people understand how life is meant to be touched, tasted, inhabited, and enjoyed. In astrology, this element represents a deeply instinctive relationship with the tangible world. Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn...
The 9th house is where life opens its windows after spending an uncomfortable amount of time locked in the basement of the human psyche. There is a meaning to its position in the zodiac, following the 8th house, the dark...
When you have Mercury trine Mars, there is a wonderful sort of energy in the way your mind works. Your thoughts wear running shoes. You possess a lively, instinctive intelligence that dislikes unnecessary detours. You have little patience for intellectual...
Neptune has a number of ways of taking the edge off life. It is part of its magic and part of its danger. We cannot stare directly at every painful reality twenty-four hours a day without eventually becoming unbearable company, Continue reading Neptune: The Lies We Tell Ourselves to Keep Going
Pluto, as we understand it astrologically, rules trauma, but trauma doesn’t only remain inside the person who carries it. We often imagine the wound as a private ordeal, a locked room somewhere deep in the psyche where one person suffers...
When Uranus moves across Mercury, your mind gets plugged into a different electrical socket. Thoughts are faster, connections appear where you never noticed them before, and old ways of thinking seem cramped. Ideas rush in. Questions multiply. Curiosity heightens. You Continue reading Uranus Transits Mercury: When New Information Turns the Whole Story Around
As a Pisces, you live close to the shoreline where the self meets everything outside it, and the border is open. You have a porous quality. Life gets in. Other people get in. Atmospheres get in. There is a vastness to...
As a Capricorn, you have one of the strangest symbols in the zodiac: the old goat-fish, part creature of the mountain and part creature of the depths. It is an odd little mythological arrangement when you think about it. Half...
Dear Virgo, you have somehow acquired the zodiac’s reputation for being the critic. It is slightly unfair. You don’t necessarily want to criticize everything. You just possess an an irritating sensitivity to discrepancy. You notice the crooked picture frame, the...
The Sun conjunct Ascendant in synastry has a feeling of recognition. It won’t always mean there are violins descending from the heavens. More often it is simpler and therefore more unsettling: you notice each other. The Sun person illuminates the Continue reading Sun Conjunct Ascendant Synastry